Read First In His Class Online
Authors: David Maraniss
Unruh, Paula, 456
Vaught, Carl, 451
Vaught, Mary Frances, 433
Vaught, Worley Oscar, 424, 433-34, 435, 451
Vereker, Katherine, 153, 374
Verveer, Phil, 61, 63, 70, 88, 313
Vietnam Moratorium Committee, 186
Vietnam War, 54, 64, 147, 148, 163, 165, 181-82, 217, 236, 255, 265, 272, 324
Clinton's opposition to, 67, 85-86, 94, 95, 97, 105, 107, 157, 162, 164, 174, 178-79, 186-87, 188-99, 200-205, 239, 453
political and public opposition to, 73, 85-86, 96, 97, 105-6, 110-11, 114, 127-28, 135-36, 151-52, 157-59, 162, 171, 177, 178-79, 183, 187-89, 224, 226-27, 267-68
Wagner, Carl, 381, 441, 442, 463
Walker, Martin, 135, 136, 154
Wallace, Doug, 298, 320, 326, 333, 334, 335, 336, 340, 348, 396
Wallace, George C., 16, 75, 114
Walls, Frances, 364
Wal-Mart, 369, 454, 459
Walsh, James, 57
Walters, Mrs. (nanny), 35
Ward, Tom, 103, 177-78
Washington Post,
19, 191-92, 194, 317, 388, 446
Wasserman, Gary, 64
Watergate scandal, 277, 285-86, 291-92, 296, 297, 307-15, 329, 369
Watts, Duke, 95, 148, 163
Waugh, Jim, 155, 156, 157
Weddington, Sarah, 343
Weicker, Lowell P., Jr., 227-28, 230, 232
Wellesley College, 246, 248, 255-59
Wexler, Anne, 227-28, 230, 231, 232, 233, 266
Weyerhaeuser timber company, 365-67
Whillock, Carl, 291, 295-96, 299, 301, 302, 303-4, 344
White, Frank, 376, 377, 378, 384, 385, 391, 393, 395, 397, 398, 402, 403, 406, 412, 429, 438, 446
White, John C., 274-75, 276, 278, 300, 380
White, Randy. 333-34, 361-62, 363, 364, 373, 379, 389, 391, 394-95, 448, 455
Whitewater investments, 302, 355-56, 373-74, 430, 431
Williams, Edward Bennett, 128
Williams, Lee, 81-82, 83, 84, 86, 114, 115, 170-71, 173
Williams, Nancy, 275, 276
Williams, Sir Edgar, 129, 132, 153, 164-65, 206, 223, 261
Williamson, Tom, 120, 124, 132, 133, 143, 187, 211, 243, 391
Willis, Carol, 294, 403, 414
Wilson, Rodney, 324
Witcover, Jules, 397
Woodward, C. Vann, 365
Wooldridge, Letha Ann, 48
Wright, Betsey, 275-76, 277, 283-84, 342, 349, 358, 391, 394, 397, 402, 404, 406, 408, 412-13, 420, 421, 422, 427, 431, 434, 435, 439, 440-41, 442, 443, 445, 446, 447, 450-51, 452-53, 454-455, 463-64
Wright, Georgie, 32
Wright, Lindsey and Jennings, 392
Yale Law Journal
, 226, 239, 246-47, 249
Yale Law School, 168, 198, 204, 208, 223, 231, 291, 297, 307, 308, 369
Clinton's first year at, 225-26, 233-45, 246-48, 259, 263-64
Clinton's third year at, 284, 285
faculty of, 235-37
pass-fail system at, 226, 288
Yale Review of Law and Social Action
, 249
Yale University, 127, 145
Yeldell, Carolyn,
see
Staley, Carolyn Yeldell
Yeldell, Linda, 94
Yeldell, Walter, 47
Young, Tommy, 148
Young Republicans, 62, 116, 255
Zaguskin, Yasha, 197, 216
William Jefferson Blythe III. Hope, Arkansas, 1950.
Virginia Kelley and William Jefferson Blythe.
Roger Clinton and Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton, with his mother and half-brother, Roger.
In a cosmopolitan resort town with big hands featured in all the top hotels and nightclubs, it was no embarrassment to play tenor sax for the award-winning high school dance band; or to lead the Pep Band during basketball season; or to form a jazz band and play riffs in the auditorium during lunch hour.
The young men of Boys Nation were invited to lunch with the senators from their state in the Senate Dining Room. Bill Clinton sat between Senator John McClelan(left) and Senator J. William Fulbright. Clinton had already studied Fulbright's life and career and considered the intellectual Arkansan his first political role model.
The highlight of Boys Nation was a visit to the Rose Garden. After a brief speech, President Kennedy greeted the boys, and Clinton made sure he was the first to shake his hand. Later, at graduation, when friends and teachers gave him their yearbooks, Clinton often turned to the page with this picture on it and signed below the photograph, which has subsequently become famous.
Georgetown, 1965. As the student officer responsible for making the incoming freshmen feel welcome, Clinton had the opportunity to make new friends and build his consituency at the same time. No one knew how to navigate the campus more skillfully.
The five seniors who shared a house on Potomat Avenue were “boringly respectable.” Within the wider spectrum of sixties behavior, Clinton and his housemates were trim and tame. Despite the war in Vietnam and the rioting following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr., Tom Campbell (right) thought of it as “a sort of never-never-land up there.”